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![A Chess Story](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/4671240/a-chess-story.jpg)
A Chess Story
An epic chess match on a transatlantic liner unearths a story of persecution and obsession. One of the most perfectly gripping novellas from a master of the form, Stefan Zweig. …
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Salad Anniversary
An exquisite collection of Japanese poetryThisinternationally bestselling book took the world by storm on its publication.Covering the discovery of new love, first heartache and …
![Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi](https://s1.adlibris.com/images/709320/memoirs-of-joseph-grimaldi.jpg)
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi
In 1837 Charles Dickens, then twenty-five years old, was asked to 'tidy up' Joseph Grimaldi's autobiography - he ended up re-writing most of it. Joseph Grimaldi (1778-1837), one of …
![Lives and Deaths](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/51217442/lives-and-deaths.jpg)
Lives and Deaths
'When we read Tolstoy, it feels easy. This is life itself' Howard Jacobson 'No other writer wrote so often, or so imaginatively, about the actual moment of dying' Orlando Figes …
![Poems to Night](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/58361437/poems-to-night.jpg)
Poems to Night
In 1916, Rainer Maria Rilke presented his friend Rudolf Kassner with a notebook, containing twenty-two poems meticulously inscribed in his own hand and bearing the title Poems to …
![I Would Prefer Not To](https://s1.adlibris.com/images/59802498/i-would-prefer-not-to.jpg)
I Would Prefer Not to
In these stories of the surreal mundanity of office life and obscure tensions at sea, Melville's darkly modern sensibility plunges us into a world of irony and mystery, where …
![The Cake Tree in the Ruins](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/41484473/the-cake-tree-in-the-ruins.jpg)
The Cake Tree in the Ruins
'I am still unable to leave the burnt-out ruins' Akiyuki Nosaka, 2014 In 1945, Akiyuki Nosaka watched the Allied firebombing of Kobe kill his adoptive parents, and then witnessed …
![Inside the Head of Bruno Schulz](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/14754953/inside-the-head-of-bruno-schulz.jpg)
Inside the Head of Bruno Schulz
Do you see what kind of a madhouse this town of Drohobycz is now, Dr Mann? People here never think and act as they should! Locked away in a dimly lit cellar in a provincial Polish …
![The Last and the First](https://s1.adlibris.com/images/59697696/the-last-and-the-first.jpg)
The Last and the First
On a crisp September morning, trouble comes to the Gorbatovs' farm. Having fled revolution and civil war in Russia, the family has worked tirelessly to establish themselves as crop …
![The Man Who Sees Ghosts](https://s1.adlibris.com/images/5889187/the-man-who-sees-ghosts.jpg)
The Man Who Sees Ghosts
A mysterious and disorienting tale of deception and adventure, set against the background of eighteenth-century VeniceOne of Germany's greatest writers, Schiller is best known for …
![Love and Youth](https://s1.adlibris.com/images/58442018/love-and-youth.jpg)
Love and Youth
An icon of Russian literature, Turgenev was able to contain the narrative sweep of a novel in a single short story. His protagonists experience the joy and painful turbulence of …
![Of Sunshine and Bedbugs](https://s1.adlibris.com/images/61700087/of-sunshine-and-bedbugs.jpg)
Of Sunshine and Bedbugs
Isaac Babel honed one of the most distinctive styles in all Russian literature. Brashly conversational one moment, dreamily lyrical the next, his stories exult in the richness of …